Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-23T01:01:25Z

David Lang wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
>
>> IMHO, I think that publishing statistics about kernel patches
>> downloads would
>> be a very Good Thing(tm) to do. Peter, what's your opinion? I think
>> that was
>> even talked about at Kernel Summit (or at least I thought of it
>> there), but
>> I've not understood if this is going to happen.
>
>
> remember that most downloads will be from mirrors, and they don't get
> stats from them.
>
> David Lang
>

That, plus there is http+ftp+rsync (not to mention git downloads, etc.)
and the noise caused by other sites mirroring *us*.

-hpa